CVE-2006-2825: cPanel does not automatically synchronize the PHP open_basedir configuration directive between the main server and virtual hosts that share
Noroxi assessment
Priority: Monitor (action score 20/100)
- The sources we track (CISA KEV, Exploit-DB, Metasploit, Nuclei, GitHub) show no public exploit code or exploitation in the wild.
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.2% (FIRST EPSS); higher than 68.9% of all records.
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
- According to the record, no fixed version is available yet.
Low priority for now. Update when a fix is released; follow the vendor's advisory.
Generated automatically from the record's data: CVSS (NVD and CNA), CISA KEV and SSVC, FIRST EPSS, exploit sources, fixed versions. How we calculate it
Primary sources: NVD · CVE.org · FIRST EPSS
cPanel does not automatically synchronize the PHP open_basedir configuration directive between the main server and virtual hosts that share physical directories, which might allow a local user to bypass open_basedir restrictions and access other virtual hosts via a PHP script that uses a main server URL (such as ~username) that is blocked by the user's own open_basedir directive, but not the main server's open_basedir directive.
- Published
- Jun 5, 2006
- Updated
- Jun 16, 2026
- EPSS
- 1.2% · 68th percentile
- CWE
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Report tools
Action score
20
Monitor
Low priority for now.
- CVSS
- 20 / 40 · 5.1 / 10
- CISA KEV
- 0 / 30 · Not listed
- EPSS
- 0 / 30 · 1.2%
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| Vendor | Product | CPE |
|---|---|---|
| cpanel | cpanel | cpe:2.3:a:cpanel:cpanel |
Affected versions
NVD version ranges (for catalog products). Add the product to your stack with a version and matching uses these.
- cpanel cpanelall versions
Same product
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Published before and after this one in the same product
- ← EarlierCVE-2006-0763Feb 17, 2006 · Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in dowebmailforward.cgi in cPanel allows remote attackers to inject arbitrary web script or HTML vi17Monitor
- ← EarlierCVE-2006-1119Mar 9, 2006 · fantastico in Cpanel does not properly handle when it has insufficient permissions to perform certain file operations, which allows remote a16Monitor
- Later →CVE-2006-3337Jul 3, 2006 · Cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerability in frontend/x/files/select.html in cPanel 10.8.2-CURRENT 118 and earlier allows remote attackers to11Monitor
Remediation
Which version to upgrade to
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No fix version is recorded for this entry. Check the references for vendor advisories.
Exploit status
No known public exploit
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Research context
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Timeline
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No dated events beyond publication.
FIRST EPSS daily score; only changes of 0.01 or more are recorded (step chart).
Patch and commit links
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No commit or PR link among the references.
Credits
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No credits in the CNA record.
Variant candidates
Same product, same weakness class, within 18 months. If the patch missed the root cause, the sibling bug is here.
No nightly-computed relations.
Chain candidates
An authentication bypass and a privilege-requiring bug in the same product, published close together: combined they may become an unauthenticated path.
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Bug bounty scope
No known public program.
Source: bounty-targets-data (public HackerOne, Bugcrowd, Intigriti, YesWeHack listings).
Technical details
Attack conditions
- Special conditions such as timing or configuration are required.
If successful
- Confidentiality
- P · data can be read
- Integrity
- P · data or configuration can be modified
- Availability
- P · the service can be disrupted
- Attack complexity
- High
- Confidentiality impact
- P
- Integrity impact
- P
- Availability impact
- P
Weakness class (CWE)
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CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:H/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
nvd-primary
Attack context
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Change log
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References
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